Children Quotes by Carl Sagan

We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.

— Carl Sagan

“If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.”

— Carl Sagan

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate…Try science.

— Carl Sagan

The visions we offer our children shape the future.

— Carl Sagan

The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood

— Carl Sagan

We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.

— Carl Sagan

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

— Carl Sagan

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system…

— Carl Sagan

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

— Carl Sagan

We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain…

— Carl Sagan

Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

— Carl Sagan

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the…

— Carl Sagan

Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for…

— Carl Sagan

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are…

— Carl Sagan

Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn.…

— Carl Sagan

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we…

— Carl Sagan

Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but…

— Carl Sagan

Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (“cognitive impairment” ).…

— Carl Sagan

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so…

— Carl Sagan

“We embarked on our journey to the stars with a question first framed in the childhood of our species and in each…

— Carl Sagan

Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by 'reality' or focused upon goals. Anything and…

— Carl Sagan

There is a report that says that kids who watch violent TV programs tend to be more violent when they grow up.…

— Carl Sagan

I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it.…

— Carl Sagan

“I find many adults are put off when young children pose scientific questions. Why is the Moon round? the children ask. Why…

— Carl Sagan

“She began to understand why lovers talk baby talk to one another. There was no other socially acceptable circumstance in which the…

— Carl Sagan

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in…

— Carl Sagan

“There is child abuse, and there are such things as repressed memories. But there are also such things as false memories and…

— Carl Sagan

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the…

— Carl Sagan

Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to…

— Carl Sagan

“A statement: children who watch violent TV programmes tend to be more violent when they grow up. But did the TV cause…

— Carl Sagan

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and…

— Carl Sagan

“From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that…

— Carl Sagan

“Every now and then, I'm lucky enough to teach a kindergarten or first-grade class. Many of these children are natural-born scientists -…

— Carl Sagan

“Every now and then, I’m lucky enough to teach a kindergarten or first-grade class. Many of these children are natural-born scientists -…

— Carl Sagan

A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our…

— Carl Sagan

We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop…

— Carl Sagan

“Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or…

— Carl Sagan

An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines,…

— Carl Sagan

If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to…

— Carl Sagan